Friday, July 14, 2006

From The Big Yawn:

Mail Order Husbands
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5 comments:

Michael Turton said...

Dude, you will eat this one alive.

5:21 PM
Michael Turton said...

Enjoy this article by David Gerrold on how SF was way ahead in predicting and stimulating new tech:

The SF Files

DVDs: In a 1969 episode of Star Trek, Kirk and Spock visit a library of big silver discs. (They were actually vinyl records painted silver.) Two engineers who watched that episode began speculating about how to store information on a silver disc?possibly by reading pits with a laser. Five years later, MCA demonstrated the first LaserDisc, called DiscoVision, which hit the consumer market in 1978. Enthusiasts kept the format alive until the DVD effectively killed it.

Michael

10:50 AM
Red A said...

Since Karl isn't blogging, I guess we can hijack his blog...

Supposedly the popular clamshell cellphones were based on Star Trek communicators...

Auto-sliding doors are another possible Star Trek boon.

Still waiting for Synthohol. (great Worf line: "Less talk, more synthohol consumption"

11:35 AM
Red A said...

Whoops. I misquoted him:

Less talk, more synthohol.

http://members.outpost10f.com/~lindax/hp/voyfun/jokes/joke_tng_05.html

I like the poker related Worf quotes:

"That is a woman's game. All the wild cards support a *weak* hand. In a man's game there are no wild cards."

"All these wild cards. It is difficult to know what exactly is in my hand.
However, I will open with fifty."

11:40 AM
Chaon said...

Been kind of busy recently, and not much funny is going on in the world or Taichung. I was tempted to have a go at Bush's Merkel massage, but other bloggers already took all the good jokes. Then I was thinking about a history repeating itself gag about Israel and Lebanon, but the whole thing is too damn depressing to find even a shard of humor in it.

11:59 AM

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